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Serge Lutens La Myrrhe EDP Perfume Review

October 7, 2015

“So, what’s your type?”

It’s something, as far as people go, that I didn’t really ask myself. I like clever, funny folks. I like people that are going to get my corny puns. I like a person that may even laugh at that corny pun. But, when it comes to perfume, I have a type. I have a few types.

“My type? I like Greens so bitter they’ll make your nose bleed. I like Aldehydes as big as the hair on The Porter Wagoner Show and as frigid as Joan Crawford. And sometimes I just want a filthy hippie Patchouli, you know, to make things more amusing.”

And really, those are my perfume “types”. Yeah, I like roses and the occasional creamy gourmand, but overall my type is green or “sparkling”. Knowing this, it shouldn’t surprise you that one of my favorite perfumes is Serge Lutens La Myrrhe. It’s an aggressively celebratory aldehydic floriental.

I feel like if a perfume had the capability of making a clanging sound, La Myrrhe would. It opens with a symphony of metallic aldehydes and bitter citrus. It bubbles over like an agitated bottle of champagne. The heart is a like a honeyed breeze over a pond of heady, indolic blooming water lotus. AND it still has that shimmering brightness of aldehydes. I don’t even know how this is possible. This heart reminds me of a sun rising over a Monet-ish water garden. The dry-down is this soft, powdery latex-almond.

La Myrrhe is aggressive and I’d say it’s a rather polarizing fragrance. But, I love its aggressive, exultant aldehydes and florals. When I want “big”, I wear La Myrrhe. And we have a nice relationship. Le Myrrhe works for me.

Loved your review. This one has been on my list to try forever (as have some other of the exclusives). I used to not like aldehydes years ago when I started sniffing (or at least I thought I didn’t)- but now I do. So I should probably try this soon.

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